04-29-2005, 11:56 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| Ahoy hoy!
Hello all,
I am a 23 year old student at Wayne State University Law School. Normally, nobody knows anything about Wayne State, but I have a feeling some of the people who have been involved with fencing (especially NCAA) have heard of the school. I fenced epee at the University of Detroit for one year in undergrad, and I took a year off when I started law school.
NCAA rules prevent me from joining an NCAA fencing team, but I recently joined a club and started taking lessons. I am fortunate to belong to a club that has a few epee fencers of each rating. I am also starting to fence competitively again, and I recently earned my E in epee.
Steve
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04-30-2005, 12:15 AM
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| Congrats on your E.
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04-30-2005, 04:23 AM
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04-30-2005, 12:17 PM
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| Welcome to the forum, eh?
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04-30-2005, 10:55 PM
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| wow- back in my college days, Wayne State had a fantastic Epee program- congrats on your E
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05-01-2005, 01:03 AM
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| Congrats on the E and grad school. We have a plethora of epeeists here so you will not be want for company.
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05-01-2005, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by daveappr wow- back in my college days, Wayne State had a fantastic Epee program- congrats on your E | They still have a fantastic epee program. WSU sent four fencers to the NCAA championships in epee. I don't remember all the places, but WSU won women's epee (Garina), and won runner-up in men's epee (Petraszek).
The club I go to is about 15 minutes from Wayne's campus, so many of the fencers at my club are current and former Wayne fencers. We also have a few fencers who fenced for U of D in '72 when they won the NCAA team championship.
I'm fortunate to be live close to a club that has epeeists of every rating. I have Wayne State and U of D to thank for that.
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05-01-2005, 11:15 AM
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| Congrats on the E... and uh, what's an E? 
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05-01-2005, 12:59 PM
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05-02-2005, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by reddphoenix Congrats on the E... and uh, what's an E? | The USFA awards letter ratings at its competitions based on how many fencers are competing, the ratings of those fencers, how well those fencerse place, and how well you place. The rating system can be found at: http://www.usfencing.org/Documents/R...sMan/Class.asp
I won a tournament that had 10 people (2 D's, 3 E's, and 5 U's). Referring to the rating chart in the link above, I did well enough to earn an E rating (I was a U). By the way, U's are people who have joined the USFA and have not earned a rating yet.
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05-05-2005, 09:29 PM
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| Welcome to the board; I hope you enjoy your renewed career in fencing.
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05-06-2005, 02:04 AM
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05-06-2005, 05:51 AM
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| Hello sjkontos wellcome.
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05-06-2005, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by VELISARIOS Hello sjkontos wellcome. | Thanks. I see you are from Greece. My family is from Chios, although I've never been there, and I don't speak Greek.
Christos Anesti!
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05-09-2005, 04:14 AM
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| Christos Anesti(Xριστός Ανέστη!)!
Yes I am from Greece and I am glad to see you. Nice island Chios, my grandmother born in Chios. Steve, you must come here in the future, you will love the island it is very nice (I have went there when I was child,nice place).
It is nice to meet you Steve. CU!
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05-09-2005, 11:41 AM
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| Goodness me! Another Greek in the equation...hurrah!!! Christos Anesti (I guess - btw, I'm so jealous that Velisarios can write in Greek...) wellcome Steve - excellent choice on the weapon | |
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05-09-2005, 01:36 PM
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| Welcome to the forum, and congradulations on your E. Poke your head in the 'Epeeists only' forum in the water cooler and say hi sometime.
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